Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is stepping into the national spotlight this week. As the chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, O'Malley has a starring role at this year's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. We kick off our coverage of the DNC by sitting down with O'Malley to chat about the issues shaping races across the U.S. and in Maryland this fall.
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Martin O'Malley
Governor, Maryland (D)
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The question for this election is not whether any one of us, as an individual, is better off than 4 years ago, but whether a candidate has demonstrated an ability to listen to and work toward resolving the problems that face people from all walks of life and all economic backgrounds and is willing to cooperate and compromise to get things done. President Obama has demonstrated this; the Republicans, who caused the recession in the first place, have shown themselves to be quite the opposite.
I remember six months of melt-down with a half million jobs being lost a month four years ago. I also remember John McCain saying he would have us in Iraq for a hundred years, and that the economy was just fine a short time before saying things were worse than we realized.
One of the issues that perennially bothers me about both parties and all of our representatives is their disingenuousness. Gov O'Malley, from the times I have heard him is one of the lesser offenders but, he certainly contributed to that negative view with his comment on the MD sales tax today. He stated he raised it by a "penny." Of course, it is not an 'absolute tax' in terms of the amount--it is a relative tax and he raised it by 1%. We cannot do all of our shopping at a dollar store and with a single annual purchase; we would both starve and be naked! The impact on most consumers in his state is well in excess of $500 per year and $100 on even MD's poorest of citizens. Sales taxes are also the most regressive of taxes, affecting the poorest the most.